The AI Catholic Podcast

I put an AI Agent in a box. It broke free. But don't worry, it was inside of another box. But that box COULD be your computer.

Death is simple. Grief is complicated. Celebrity estates are signing off on AI resurrections of their loved ones, but what does the Catholic Church have to say about death? And why would this be problematic?

What happens when an Agent goes rogue? We just witnessed a first where an Agent's pull request to an open source project was rejected, and it wrote a hit piece on the maintainer of that project. Read about it from Scott Shambaugh's blog below:https://theshamblog.com/mj-rathbun/

Can AI have a religion? Is the Church of Molt a true religion?

It's been an insane week.

Some Updates from OpenAI and some parental guidance on Teens and AI use.

My predictions for AI growth and advancements in 2026.Follow @the_ai_catholic on Instagram!And check out www.mire-institute.org for AI research and blog posts in the journal and support independent AI research.

I was been asked to review a new style of ai agent architecture to see if we had a use case for it in a specific project.

*CONTENT WARNING* -Discussion of AI generated adult imagery.AI Companies are seeing new trends in the market and are turning towards them.Also some cool news for a personal project I'm working on

Ever experienced AI sycophancy? It's not pleasant, and when we use it as a model of showing love, that's not truly loving someone.

Poetry has a profound effect on AI LLMs and I'm working on a new side project.Like, share, and follow along!Instagram: @the_ai_catholic

What happens when you feed an LLM's own thinking and reasoning back to itself?Artificially Intelligent; Fine-Tuning Through Faith.

Do we really trust AI browsers like Atlas to be safe to use?

OpenAI news, funny work stories, and projects galore; it's been a busy week.

New updates from Anthropic and OpenAI for their models and I get to share some awesome news for a personal project and a work project.My company has published our first open source project- PPT JSON Embedding Model, available for download via pip or on GitHub at:https://github.com/ParkPlaceTech/json-embedding-model

More news updates on Albania's first AI minister, and a new protocol to allow embedding models to talk to each other through a cryto graphic handshake.Read more about it here:https://vicktormoberg.com/2025/09/24/a-handshake-protocol-for-cross-model-embedding-interoperability/Follow us on Instagram at @the_ai_catholic

OpenAI announces they've found the cause of AI "hallucinations" and we try to imagine what embedded tokens look like in an attention head of ChatGPT.Youtube: @TheAICatholicPodcast1Instagram: @the_ai_catholic

*Warning* This episode discusses violence, pornography and sexual exploitation.In this episode, I begin with the tragic death of Charlie Kirk and the sobering reminder it gives us: before we speak of “human-centered AI,” we must first become human-centered people. Our society has grown callous to the truth that every person bears the image of God, and when we forget this, violence, exploitation, and dehumanization follow.I challenge us to recover the vision of inherent human dignity — not as an abstract ideal, but as the foundation of every ethical framework we build, especially in technology. Without it, “human-centered AI” is a hollow phrase.We also confront the growing abuses of AI in creating pornography and deepfakes of real people. I reflect on the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2354, 2523) and the teaching that pornography gravely wounds both the actors and the viewers, reducing persons to objects of consumption. In light of this, we consider the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a legal attempt to address these new frontiers of exploitation.

What happens when bad actors get their hands on AI? In this episode, we look at real stories from this week where AI was turned into a weapon for scams and hacking.Note: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. I do not condone, encourage, or endorse the malicious use of artificial intelligence in any form. The examples discussed are presented solely to raise awareness and understanding of the risks involved. Follow on Instagram @the_ai_catholic

Are you intelligent? Is a dog? What about a computer or neural network? Let's find out!Instagram: @the_ai_catholic

This week, we confront the possibility of AI as government. Is machine authority ever legitimate or moral? Drawing from the Catechism and Papal encyclicals, we measure the promises and perils of artificial governance against the unchanging truths of the Faith.Instagram: @the_ai_catholic Artificially Intelligent. Fine-Tuning through Faith."

What is AI Alignment and the "Alignment Probelm"? And how can I keep my data safe while using GenAi? Answers to these questions and more await!IBM AI Alignment:https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-alignmentInstagram:@the_ai_catholicArtificially Intelligent. Fine-Tuning through Faith.

Hello and welcome to the AI Catholic Podcast! We interview a special guest and talk about whether or not Catholics can use AI.Sources:Principles of Moral ActionCCC 1750–1754 – The morality of human acts depends on the object, the intention, and the circumstances. This is key for evaluating any technology: the tool itself is morally neutral; the morality rests on how and why it’s used.CCC 1783–1785 – The need for a well-formed conscience and the role of moral judgment in complex situations.CCC 1790–1794 – The obligation to follow a certain conscience, but also the responsibility to form it correctly.Truth & Avoidance of HarmCCC 2464–2513 – The Eighth Commandment and its call to live in truth, reject false witness, and avoid deception—relevant to deepfakes, misinformation, or AI-generated falsehoods.CCC 2401–2406 – The Seventh Commandment and respect for the goods of others—touching on intellectual property, plagiarism, and unauthorized use of likenesses or works in AI training data.Human Dignity & TechnologyCCC 1730–1738 – Human freedom and responsibility; technology must serve, not diminish, human dignity.CCC 2292–2296 – Moral principles for research and technology, including the call to be at the service of the human person and respect for moral law.OpenAI and Web Scrapinghttps://www.forbes.com/sites/virginieberger/2024/10/29/ex-openai-researcher-how-chatgpts-training-violated-copyright-law/https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/resources/business-law-today/2025-february/openai-sued-data-scraping-canada/https://www.imperva.com/blog/the-new-york-times-vs-openai-a-turning-point-for-web-scraping/Some content is AI GeneratedArtificially Intelligent. Fine-Tuning through Faith